Altered's Stampede Project

I'd suggest swapping out your spur at least to a 90 for lower gearing options. It gets kinda tough gearing super low, but the bigger spur will help some. I think you should be fine with a 15 or 16/90 setup. I'm sure the esc will handle it no sweat, motor may get hot, but probably not too bad. I don't think I could bring myself to bash that body, it looks great. Despite all the poor opinions on castle's motors, mine's (6900 in rustler) held up just fine after being subjected to nasty things repeatedly. Both esc and motor has seen 200+ degrees on a few occasions. You've got options with that setup for more low end or high end if you want it via gearing or more cells or both. I would opt for a mamba pro if I could do it all over again, if you like to creep around a bit and climb over stuff, sensored is the way to go for smooth transitions. My stampede currently houses a cheapy sensored AE esc and an old novak 13.5. Temps are always cool and the power is enough for what I want to use it for. Well, I would rather have my 10.5 X-11, but that didn't hold up to well with the rough ridin. I think the mamba motors are durable enough to take stampede abuse.